Then there are those, the enlightened few, who have held onto their older devices until they become retro-cool.
Enter the rise of the enlightened merchant and the corporate pursuit of impact.
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One, the enlightened world we inhabit is a result of 200-plus years of growth, starting with the Industrial Revolution.
Downsizing and corporate restructuring hit hard at the enlightened benevolence of weak firms.
If the enlightened nations of the world fail to do so in Nicaragua, we will pay the consequences sooner than later.
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In Kenya the government took the enlightened approach of allowing M-PESA to go ahead, rather than tying Safaricom in red tape.
But that does not fully discharge the enlightened company's debt to society.
We lack the general technological sophistication of a South Korea, the enlightened regulation of a Canada, and the calm, self-effaciing resiliency of a Japan.
General counsels, at least the enlightened ones, are fed up.
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"Some other countries do not have the enlightened, bold leadership to take them in this direction, " says Henry Azzam, the CEO of Jordinvest, a regional bank based in Jordan.
Unfortunately, the events of the past week show clearly that evil is on the march, and "the enlightened nations of the world" are on a coffee break from enlightenment.
And as he spoke, the ability of "the enlightened nations of the world" to deny that the Iranian regime is building a nuclear arsenal was finally and utterly wiped away.
The enlightened peoples of Europe, and growing numbers of Americans, have no interest in hearing or seeing anything that depicts Jews as good people, or even just as regular people.
Sadly, the enlightened aspects of hip hop are overlooked by critics who are out to satisfy a grudge against black youth culture and are too angry or self-righteous to listen and learn.
But as a conservative Republican, and as a non-leftist woman, Bachmann - like the Sarah Palin - has no right to expect tolerance for her family's privacy from the enlightened, feminist, liberal media.
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Mr Chun himself described a generational shift in Chinese attitudes and noted that the Chinese envoy to the six-country talks on North Korea was, contrary to his hopes, not one of the enlightened sophisticates.
In January 1989, after all the photographs of gassed Iranian soldiers and Kurds had been filed in the chanceries of the enlightened nations, the world's diplomats gathered in Paris and resolutely resolved to negotiate another treaty that would prohibit chemical weapons.
Diminishing social mobility, the cult of the celebrity society, the decline in serious learning, the increasing disregard for empiricism and social attitudes verging on valuephobia threaten to cast a shadow on the enlightened western liberalism which has taken us so far.
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Netanyahu used his speech at the notorious death camp to nudge what he referred to as "the enlightened nations of the world" to recognize that "murderous evil" has to be stopped as early as possible to prevent it from achieving its aims.
For them, real change means: supporting abortion on demand without apology, abandoning traditional marriage between one man and one woman, embracing government growth as the key to American success, agreeing to higher taxes every year to pay for government expansion, and endorsing the enlightened policies of European socialism.
"It is paradoxical that Europeans see themselves as the most enlightened policy makers in the world, " he added.
Some of the more enlightened ones are addressing the challenge of reaching out to the growing share of the electorate that's made up of minorities.
In fact, penal reformers point to the Woolf Report of 1991 as the most enlightened blueprint for improving the prison system presented to any post-war government.
In the area of Afghanistan controlled by the alliance, what some argued as the more enlightened Islamic principles espoused by Mr Rabbani meant that he was often in ideological and military confrontations with the more hardline Taliban.
Some judges, when elevated to the Supreme Court, have taken it as licence to act as philosopher-kings, laying down the kind of enlightened laws that the oafs in Congress ought to have passed but did not.
Any serious peace effort will confront Sri Lanka's leaders with questions that would stump even the most enlightened statesman.
One grim possibility is Mr Seselj and his cut-throats have been allowed to settle scores with the more enlightened figures in Serbia's narrow political spectrum.
Well, it seems someone at the IRS has become enlightened and the long awaited simplifications to the various rules which govern home office deductibles have now been released.
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The separation of church and state is one of the most enlightened aspects of our constitutional principles and has a duel purpose, both of which are extremely important.
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It certainly must do so if it is to square Estonia's liberal habits such as no trade tariffs and no protection for farmers with the less enlightened requirements of European Union membership.
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